(172) I am a mom struggling in secret (with Rachel Goodman)

Let's dive into the latest Love Food podcast episode and the complex experience of raising children while trying to walk the Food Peace journey. Does the question "What's for dinner?" feel like nails on the chalkboard? Pull up a chair and let's sort this out with special guest Rachel Goodman from the More Than What You Eat Podcast. Subscribe and leave a review here in just seconds. Looking for more Food Peace? Want to help support the Love Food Podcast? Check out my new After the Letters Projecton Patreon. I have exclusive weekly mini-episodes for $29/month and other freebies. Find more at Patreon.com/LoveFoodPodcast This episode is brought to you by my courses: PCOS and Food Peaceand Dietitians PCOS and Food Peace. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This episode's Dear Food letter: Dear Food,   The worst question my children can ask me is, ‘’Whats for dinner?’. It’s a daily assault on my desire to avoid thinking about you altogether. For me to answer my children’s question, I need to have thought about you- what would be tasty, what my children would like, what will nourish them. And then when I have thought about you, I then have to prepare you. I find this utterly overwhelming  and exhausting down to my bones. Did you notice I don’t ask myself, what would I like to eat? I don’t know the answer to that question. I am so divorced from you that I don’t know what I want when I feel hungry. And Food, so you know, I have felt hungry for as long as I can remember.  Here’s what I do know about you Food: I know that it’s not my fault I am fat and it’s not your fault either. I just feel like we got off on the wrong foot. My mum was scared of you Food, and did the things women do to keep you at bay. She did the best she could with what she had, but it’s left its mark.  I watched, and I felt constrained and angry. So I very angrily and defiantly ate what I wanted, but eating because you're angry doesn’t lead to food peace either.  I talk about you so positively with my kids, and I put on such a cheerful, food neutral voice at dinner and lunch and breakfast and snacks and all the times that we seem to talk about food. My children will never, ever know that you and I don’t really get on, that is a promise. But, truthfully I want to not think about you, you make me so anxious and demoralised.  Do you think you and I might be able to make peace?  Sincerely, Mom Secretly Searching for Food Peace Show Notes: Julie Dillon RD blog Link to subscribe to the Love Food’s Food Peace Syllabus. Rachel Goodman More Than What You Eat Podcast Rachel's free course Rachel Goodman on Instagram @Dietitian.RachelGoodman Find Eating Disorder Dietitiansnear you. Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to [email protected].  Click here to leave me a review in iTunes and subscribe. This type of kindness helps the show continue!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy